Free Trade, Free Enterprise—FREEDOM— reserved for US-select

… Or else suffer US attack

Among today’s headlines:

“US Senate committee green-lights sanctions against (Russia’s) Nord Stream 2 pipeline project”

Unfair competition USA

• Proponents: U.S. Senators Ted Cruz of Texas, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire
• Opponents: U.S. Senators Rand Paul of Kentucky, Tom Udall of New Mexico

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eadline Recast:

U.S. Senators in another anti-Russia move vote 20 to 2 to impose sanctions against firms connected with “a natural gas pipeline stretching from Russia to Germany.”

From “leaders” 

who govern by bicker and blame, by threat and demonization, lying about and stealing from other nations all the while lining their own pockets; 

“leaders” whose character of lazy, self-centering self-important, corrupt “leadership” has chronically and deliberately failed to consider and fund innovation, new ideas, new economies and modes of employment from within; failed to prepare its population for the future

— this is the final straw (the epitome) in an egregious pattern of disgustingly reckless, belligerently unethical, unlawful, anti-internationalist (anti-universalist) abuse of one nation’s power.

This one nation of unchecked violators of the sovereignty and self-determination (indeed the right to life) of global nations — 

these same belligerent forces (public office holders and their partners) have at the same time criminally neglected U.S. domestic institutions, infrastructures, human rights and relations; thus accelerating the pell-mell plummet into a combat zone (as of U.S. leaders and their partners’ impact in the Americas (more generally), the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere) of unending chaos, disempowerment, division and decline.

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he current U.S. president, following on the heels of his predecessors

• ♦ Bullies (browbeats, intimidates, coerces) other nations to buy U.S. “liquefied natural gas” (and/or other products)

• ♦ Demonizes nations producing and offering the same commodity (i.e., practicing free enterprise) at a lower price (engaging legally in free trade and competition); and, failing the first two (or simultaneously, with partners)

• ♦ Commits violence (often claiming, dishonestly, to “Protect” with bombs, belligerence, and/or with economic sanctions) against nations, regions and peoples; and against the right to life, liberty, and self-determination.

U.S. Leaders v. Free Enterprise, Fair Competition

Owned by Russia’s Gazprom, “the Nord Stream 2 venture is based in Switzerland, funded by five concerns including Germany’s BASF/Wintershall and the Netherlands Shell, and is fronted by former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder.”The last reportedly has “accused American exporters of

• ♦ sourcing their LNG (Liquefied natural gas) from fracking and

• ♦ trying to undermine Nord Stream 2”

Europe, Schröder said, has “a basic interest in obtaining ‘extra natural gas from Russia.’”

DW’s January report said at the time that this second Russian “natural gas pipeline across the Baltic seabed to Germany” was “just months away from completion” — despite purported concerns about “Europe’s energy security.”

Not among the U.S. leaders’ arguments against Nord Stream 2 (also in DW’s report) was this nugget:

“Along its (Nord Stream 2's) trajectory, environmentalists including Germany’s Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) claim that seabed wildlife will be ‘irreparably damaged.’”

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hile exempting itself from the rule of law and free in its quest for world domination, the United States through successive leaders, on a variety a pretexts have applied force in the form of economic and financial sanctions against nations and people.

It is noteworthy the nations and people not on U.S. sanctions lists:

• Occupying Israel

• Dictatorships Bahrain and Saudi Arabia

U.S. Sanctions against Nations  

Iran (1979, lifted 1981, reintroduced 1987	North Korea (1950 - )	Syria (1986- )
Sudan (1993- )	Cuba (1958- )	Venezuela (2006- )

U.S. Sanctions against Persons in Countries

Noteworthy on the list are

• Poor countries or countries with arrested basic development (clean and running water, electricity, enough food, sustainable income, proper permanent secure shelter)

• Countries being occupied and/or bombed by U.S. forces (Yemen, the poorest country in the Arab world, is being bombed by the U.S. and Saudi Arabia)

• Countries in disarray or conflict because of U.S. invasion, regime change, or other interference

• Countries the U.S. claims erroneously—none of these have threatened or bombed the United States — as enemies.

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hile the U.S. has intimidated, bombed, destabilized, and plundered scores of countries—no economic or financial sanctions have been opposed against the United States of America or its people. No war has been waged against this land that we love.

U.S. Sanctions against Persons in these Nations

Yugoslavia (the former)	Belarus	Belize
Bolivia	Burundi	Central African Republic
China	Comoros	Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Equatorial Guinea	Eritrea
Gabon	Iraq	Laos
Libya	Mauritania	Myanmar
Nicaragua	Papua New Guinea	Russia
Somalia	South Sudan	Turkmenistan
Ukraine	Russia	Crimea
Venezuela	Yemen	Zimbabwe

 

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hat is also noteworthy is that the United States is a nation of great wealth—in its lands, in its people and in its founding documents; an enormously rich nation. Yet the face, fact and act, the presence U.S. leaders extend to the world is one of unending hostility.

Would men (women) fight less if oil were left in the ground, coal on the mountaintop, and fuel in shale rock? I expect not. Delusional men (women) would still persist in a fool’s quest to conquer the mountain, and lord over all—

Faces lacking in graciousness, gratitude, respect, humility before the mountain…. Men/women bereft of the capacity to care beyond self!

What a pity.

Sources

RT “US Senate committee green-lights sanctions against Nord Stream 2 pipeline project” July 31, 2019 https://www.rt.com/news/465487-us-committee-nord-stream-sanctions/

DW “Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to open by November: Russian gas will be piped direct to Germany from November despite the project’s detractors, a project engineer has asserted. Critics have said Europe will be left vulnerable and climate goals will be undermined.” January 29, 2019 https://www.dw.com/en/nord-stream-2-gas-pipeline-to-open-by-november/a-47277058

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Urgent Call to Americans: Question early, often, always!

U.S. Allies with State Sponsors of Terrorism, Makes Enemies of NON state sponsors of terrorism

Critical Commentary urging “essential public conversation” — Eric Zuesse December 19, 2018— Questions surrounding State Sponsors of and complicity in Terrorism amounting to a U.S. v. U.S. scenario

Actual

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tate Sponsors of Terrorism

Qatar, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Pakistan—each one “identified as funders of fundamentalist-Sunni groups who perpetrate terrorism upon the US and other countries”—acknowledged in private by the U.S. Government.

U.S.-allied Saudi Kingdom sponsor of terrorism

Fundamentalist-Sunni terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda—primarily funded by actual State Sponsors of Terrorism (mainly Saudi Arabia)—have attacked the United States.

2014 secret court case in the United States

• “Financial bagman who had personally collected tens of millions of dollars for Al Qaeda during the years prior to Saudi Arabia’s 9/11 attacks said under oath…: ‘without the money of the — of the Saudi, you will have nothing’ of Al Qaeda.

“The U.S. Government continues, to this day, to protect the royal Saud family, who own and control Saudi Arabia and its Government and who were the chief funders of the 9/11 attacks.”

• At the September  6, 2016, international Islamic conference in Grozny, “jihadist sects were condemned by all Governments except Saudi Arabia’s; and … the only Government continuing to support the most extremist sect, Wahhabism, was Saudi Crown Prince Salman, the American regime’s closest ally.” (Asia News reporting “Conference in Grozny: Wahhabism exclusion from the Sunni community provokes Riyadh’s wrath”)

NOT

Sponsors of Terrorism but U.S. Government publicly labels as such

On the United States Government’s “official list of ‘State Sponsors of Terrorism’ are  four governments:

• Syria (as of 1979)
• Iran (as of 1984),
• Sudan (as of 1993), and
• North Korea (as of 2017)

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owever

• None of them is a fundamentalist-Sunni-led nation, and

• None of them has ever attacked or even threatened to attack the United States of America.

Raising Critical Questions

• On whose side is the Government of the United States of America?

• Is it on the side of countries such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar; or is it on the side of countries such as Iran and Syria — countries that the Saudis want to take over?

• Why does the U.S. persist in the deception, labeling countries such as Syria and Iran—countries that are “chief enemies of actual state sponsors of terrorism—‘State Sponsors of Terrorism’?”

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ccupying Specter Israel and U.S. bipartisan Regime

More Questions

•  “… [I]s the U.S. Government supposed to be representing and protecting the people in Israel, or … representing and protecting the people in the United States of America?

• “What’s actually behind the U.S. Government’s systematic lying, against Shiites, and for Sunnis (especially Wahhabist ones) and Israel?

• “…[W]hy is this U.S. Government lying bipartisan — not Republican or Democratic but both — at the very top of the U.S. regime: the people who actually control both of America’s political Parties?

• “[D]o the American people … not control the American Government?

• “If not, then what should be done to the American Government?

“[W]hy are such questions not being publicly debated and discussed, especially in the American press and among the American people?

• “Is the U.S. lockdown that complete?”

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.S. policies and prejudices, its blind siding with this or that “ism” or ideology suggests that the United States of America is in a war against itself—on a road to its annihilation.

Sources

Strategic Culture Foundation “Which Nations Are State Sponsors of Terrorism?”(Commentary submitted to all US news media for publication to get essential public conversation in America started) Eric Zuesse  December 19, 2018, https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/12/19/which-nations-are-state-sponsors-of-terrorism.html

Eric Zuesse is an investigative historian, author, reporter and commentator; co-creator of news and opinion website “Russia Insider,” begun in “September 2014 by a group of expats living in Russia who felt that coverage of Russia is biased and inaccurate”; its published mission: “media criticism and reform.”

Russia Insider https://russia-insider.com/en/about

Eric Zuesse https://books.google.com/books/about/Democratic_Vs_Republican_Economics.html?id=flyYMQEACAAJ&source=kp_author_description

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